My first thousand days on Duolingo

It all started as a joke in the middle of the summer in 2016. I had already done a minor effort to learn a bit of French but I hadn’t really got serious with that. I might have done something like 5 lessons in 2014 and 7 lessons in 2015 — we’re talking about less that 30 hours in total.

Then, I heard about Duolingo. Initially I was just experimenting. Sometime in the autumn of 2016 though, I somehow got very serious with it. Here I am today then to celebrate my 1,000 day Streak — is this not incredible?

So, how have I spent my time on that awesome app?

Primarily with trying to learn French and then Spanish. Also I’ve done an intro to Italian and then just a little bit of German.

That was the serious part. Let me clearly state that I’ve decided to make my absolute best in order to become conversational (I’m tempted to say ‘fluent’, but I won’t) in all those European languages.

Then it was the fun part; I’ve got a flavor of Dutch and Swedish, and even less than a flavor in Portuguese, Romanian and Turkish. Oh, I shouldn’t forget that — I’ve also tried to learn the absolutely very basics of the Hiragana syllabary system in Japanese. Admittedly with limited success though.

This is what I’ve done during my first 1,000 days on Duolingo. Let me take this opportunity to share a very warm thank you to the people who’ve made this awesome product. Not only language learning can become fun, but also spending your time — otherwise mindlessly — on your smartphone can be a little useful at last.